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SHELL CRUSHING. 



autumn, tliongli it is never abundant, and the young are 

 rarely seen. 



BRAIZE, OR BECKER {Pagrus Vulgaris). 



THE GILTHEAD. 



In liunting over my Museum of Economic Fisli 

 Culture, South Kensington, for what I thought might 

 be accei^table at the Berlin Exhibition, I came across 

 two very beautiful jaws of fish, one of which I now figure. 

 They were given me in 1871 by my late friend Mr. 

 Frederick Lee, the well-known Eoyal Academician, 

 who kindly brought them from South Africa in his 

 yacht the Kingfisher. These teeth are those of the 

 gilthead bream (Chrysophri/s aurata). They are very 

 large specimens, considerably larger than any in the 

 College of Surgeons. 



Mr. Lee informed me that the fish to which the jaw 

 figured belonged weighed between 501bs. and 601bs. 



The gilthead is found in the Mediterranean, and from 

 Gibraltar as far south as the Cape. They live, I be- 

 lieve, in the surf among rocks and in very rough water. 

 They feed upon very hard and thick shells, such as are 

 found on rocky and storm- washed foreshores. 



Gould any set of teeth be possibly better adapted to 

 the giiudnig up hard shells than those the represent.^ - 



